Little V, Big Time G, TB, W, TOB, Part the Third Ya’ll!
Posted by Brennan on January 10, 2011
Bomerica Friends,
Well. As is standard, I enter the second week of this relationship filled with embarrassment and guilt. Guilt over not posting those People Magazine-worthy shots of rehearsals, and even more guilt over not yet posting about the sweet, sweet show at Little Village this past Friday morning. I bet if I owned an ipad, I would have posted about 8 times by now. Or at least I would have learned about that Ohio man on the side of the road with the good radio voice WAY faster. Gosh. Now he’s selling me macaroni and cheese. How quickly our world moves, Bomerica. How quickly.
But now that we’re here, and now that I’ve spent 9 hours learning that, in our modern day, (meaning, “since 1983”), we have technology that can “resize” “digital photographs,” let’s get this fired up…..
So in our rehearsals last week, the Little Village cast was having a competition that only I knew about, (and still did not win). The rules were as such. The FIRST person to say the secret password, chosen by me, would be the first company member with their attractive, attractive face posted on the blog in 2011. Thereby rocketing that person to a year full of success in all aspects of life, and basically chiseling their name on the “Tom Malinowski Monkey MVP Award” at the end of the school year.
Now, because I am a 10-year-old child living in a 30-year-old man’s body, I can think of nothing more secretive than the word, “dolphin.” So the game, which nobody knew about, was on. The first person to say the word “dolphin” in my hearing range, (again, lone participant in the game), would be picture-on-this-blog famous.
(Side note: After a few hours of no success, I thought this contest was ludicrous. Why on earth would anybody use the word “dolphin” in their everyday life not as a dolphin trainer? I then considered changing the secret password to “(fart noise),” but thought this gave too much of an advantage to Michael Govier.)
So I stuck with my first dolphin-like instincts, and would you just LOOK at this…..........
Turns out, young Marco from Ms. Im’s class wrote a great story titled, “The Mysterious Zoo.” Emjoy Gavino, our winner, happened to play a dolphin making her zoo getaway, (as seen happening below, alongside Michael Govier, who still nearly pulled off the upset victory), and threw in a pretty amazing “dolphin leaping out of water” mime. Thereby more than earning her spot as the first Monkey on the blog, 2011 style. Well done Emjoy. Never change. Stay sweet. Have a great summer.
And to pause my nonsense for a moment, a word on how great the show went on Friday morning. Man, that Little Village School is a great place. The school looked great, the feel in the air was positive, and this 30-year old man got the feeling that many children were rapidly and energetically passing him up with their knowledge level, which is wonderful. And don’t even get me STARTED, blog, on those students. Give me a break. An entire building full of creative, intelligent, and adorable students all with good posture? Get out of my face. Just walking through the hallway to the drinking fountain, I was passed by two or three classrooms, each chalk full (probably not how you write that expression) of smiling, laughing (in a respectful-of-others’-learning way), kind, and helpful students. Their numbers then multiplied as they filled the gymnasium, (which has sweet basketball courts, might I add), but their impressive character traits did not. As a grown-up, I have done many shows for other grown-ups, and a large number of audiences full of adults are not in the same classiness league as the students at Little Village.
Enough of my ranting. Laughter was shared by all. Ricky Harris did in fact nail his role as the jealous supermodel in Stephanie D’s “My Own Story,” Laura McKenzie and Tim Soszko held a dance-fight for the ages, in which nobody wins because nobody has any good moves, in a group story from Ms. Im’s class staring Sappy the Squirrel and Tommy the Dog, and Geoff Rice and Marika Mashburn played a couple who run a “Horse Borrow Place” on a beach in Bianca S.‘s majestic “Horse Beach.” It was a great way to spend a Friday morning, and I hope the Little Village students, teachers, and staff enjoyed the show as much as I did. (Probably safe to use “we” in that last sentence, but I don’t want to speak for anybody. Maybe someone fell into a toilet and accidentally gave themselves a swirlee while they were flailing around trying to free themselves. I don’t know.)
Nice work Little Village School, and nice work Little Village Monkey Participants. You all nailed it. Probably doesn’t need to be written, but especially Emjoy.
Your Best Friend,
Brennan